Verna Doherty
Doherty is a poet and writer. She has been published in Dixie Phoenix and Austen Press. She has self-published four books of poetry including Daze of Summer, How Far Can You Throw A Tantrum?, Wordless Recognition and Today I Don’t Need To Die . She is currently working on two books: Kisses Left Undelivered – The Story of Will Shatter (His Art, Music and Words)and I Saw You Shine, a book about the San Francisco band Flipper.
Emma Duncan
Emma Duncan grew up on the Central Coast, and loves to watch the fog roll in. She is a Junior at Sarah Lawrence College (located just north of NYC) where she studies theatre, poetry, and English. This year, “Horses in New York City” was also published in the Sarah Lawrence literary magazine The SLC Review. Emma is currently abroad for a year at the British American Drama Academy, in London. She feels honored to be included in these pages.
Jane Elsdon
Elsdon has published numerous poems and short stories over 30-years, as well as eight books and chapbooks. Her work has received national awards. In 2005, she
was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo. In 2008, she was one of seven poets, known as the Plein Air Poets of San Luis Obispo County, whose poems appeared in Poems for Endangered Places. Since 2001, she has hosted Third Thursday, a venue for poetry in Atascadero, CA.
Fishy LaRue
Fish Finger (aka Adrian Kleinsmith) began producing his own music in 2005 after being a DJ for more than 12-years. Five years later, his tunes are internationally recognized along with his Dubstep/Electronica Record label, Crossroads Records. He has played raves, parties, and renegades in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Philadelphia, & Memphis. Fish Finger hosts a live weekly Saturday show on Subfm 7pm PST and he always pulls a fresh one you haven’t heard before.
Terri Glass
Glass is a poet, writer and former biologist. She now serves as Program Director for California Poet in the Schools and teaches classes and workshops on poetry writing to both children and adults. She is the author of a book of poetry, Unveiling the Mystical Light and Language of the Awakened Heart, a guidebook for classroom teachers and is a spoken word artist on the CD, The Body of the Living Future. The poem "The Foxpath" first appeared on this CD.
Glenda Griffith
Griffith was a professional musician for 45 years playing with many bands and singing with Don Henley and the Eagles, who produced her first album. While continuing her music career she continued her interest in art, in the last 5 years she has been exibiting in galleries on the Central Coast. Glenda works in acrylic, water color and oils. Her work ranges from landscapes, seascapes and wild life to abstracts. She resides in Cambria, California.
Jim Hayes
Hayes is a Cal Poly State University Journalism Professor Emeritus, journalist and former LA Times writing coach. In 2006, he collaborated with Art Professor Emeritus Robert Reynolds on The Art of Robert Reynolds: Quiet Journey, a 176-page hardbound book. Hayes is working on a memoir, Lost in the Greatest Generation.
George Hitchcock - (1914-2010)
Hitchcock is a major American writer/editor/actor of the 20th century. Co-founded the San Francisco Review, and in 1964, he went solo and launched kayak magazine. As a creative writer, Hitchcock authored a dozen books of distinctive, surrealist poetry, seven widely produced plays, and two collections of short stories and two novels. One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader includes work from all three genres, as well as interviews, Hitchcock's famous testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and a section on kayak.
Terek Hopkins
Hopkins attends the University of Oregon where he is majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. He plans on pursuing his doctorate and later teach at the college level. Hopkins won the San Luis Obispo County High School Writing Contest for his personal narrative and was a runner up in two other categories.
Janet Janszen
Janszen is a poet, elementary school educator, photographer and incessant tree hugger. She has been a featured poet at Poetry On the Peaks/International Day of Peace, Mount San Jacinto, A National Poetry Month Celebration, Ojai, 1000 Palms Calm: A Poetry Reading for Peace and Hope, College of the Desert, The National League of American Pen Women Palm Springs Branch and poetry slams in both California and Maui. She is currently completing a children's poetry book titled "Mac and Cheese, If You Please, and Other Yummy Poems" and a somewhat more grown-up book titled "Break-Up Poetry: Volume I and Here's Hoping There's No Volume II".
Sally Lemee
Lemee is an aspiring photographer who enjoys nature through the eyes of a camera lens. Her career as a program manager of training programs at UCSC Extension enabled her to take advantage of several photography classes in the Monterey and Santa Cruz areas.
Glenna Luschei
Luschei is the publisher/editor Café Solo, Solo and Solo Café. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a D.H Lawrence Fellowship in New Mexico, an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and a Master of Life Award from her alma mater, The University of Nebraska. She was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo City and County for the year 2000. For four years, she served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Robert McDowell
McDowell's poetry, criticism, and fiction have been published widely here and abroad in magazines such as The Hudson Review, Poetry, The New Criterion, The Kenyon Review, London Magazine, and Zzyzyva, among others. He is the author of Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions, and three collections of poetry, On Foot, In Flames, Quiet Money and The Diviners and founder of The Reaper magazine and Story Line Press. His other published books include How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel, stories translated from the Czech with Jindriska Badal; the revised Sound and Form in Modern Poetry with Harvey Gross; and The Reaper Essays. He is also the editor of the anthologies, Poetry After Modernism, and Cowboy Poetry Matters.
Nutzle
Nutzle, a.k.a Bruce Kleinsmith, who pictures himself as a fine artist locked inside a cartoonist's body. Contributor to the Japan Times for 16-years and Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1970s and a cartoonist for The Santa Cruz Weekly.
Dorothy Pier
Pier's work has appeared in the The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Saveur Magazine, West. The First Line have published Dorothy Pier's short fiction. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Marquette University.
Weslee Schonberger
Schonberger is an aspiring artist/writer. Literature as well as music are but a few of this uprising multi-faceted artist's passions. She has earned her pilot's license over the previous years and is looking forward to becoming a multi-engine qualified pilot. Upon graduation, she will strive to become an engineer in the field of renewable energy.
Bobbe Tyler
Tyler “knew” she was a writer when still a child, and she did indeed write all through her long career—40 years of experience in corporate communications and organization. When she left corporate life she moved to Cambria, California, to write non-fiction full-time for publication. While completing her first book (Searching for Soul: a survivor’s guide, published by University of Ohio/Swallow Press in August 2009 and twice a prizewinner) she also wrote some shorter length pieces that were published on-line and in Quadrant, the New York C. G. Jung Foundation Journal for Analytical Psychology in 2006. She also received a Finalist Award for an essay she submitted to the San Francisco Writers Contest in 2008. Tyler is now leading workshops using her book as a model for coming to consciousness.
R. M. Zurkan
Born on Long Island, in New York, Zurkan worked for the CIA and UN before she was 20, then took a tramp steamer to Istanbul. Returning, she was confidential secretary to Clifton Daniel at The New York Times. Most recently, she has been a programmer for airlines and hotels. The high point of her career was living in Paris for five years while programming a reservation system for the French high speed trains and Eurostar. Zurkan now resides in Central California with a jealous border collie mix and a cranky cat.
